Macham

[Macham made there a chapel, naming it Iesus chapell.]

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The voyage of Macham an English man, wherein he first of any man discouered the Iland of Madera, recorded verbatim in the

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And they affirme also, that the principall cause which moued him to this, was to discouer the Iland of Madera, which Macham had found, &c. ibidem pag.

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This Iland hath another towne called Machico, which hath likewise a good road for ships, which towne and road were so called after the name of Macham the

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Macham has been recently confirmed by authentic documents discovered in Lisbon.

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This Iland was first discouered by one Macham an Englishman, and was after conquered and inhabited by the Portugall nation.

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Castile, the information which Macham gaue of this Iland, and also the ship of his company, mooued many of France and Castile to go and discouer it, and also the great Canaria, &c.

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Macham, which loued her dearely built a chapell, or hermitage, to bury her in, calling it by the name of Iesus, and caused his name and hers to be written or grauen vpon the stone of her tombe, and the occasion of their arriuall there.

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English Macham in the reign of our Edward III., and by Portuguese ships under Genoese captains in 1341; in 1291 the Vivaldi ventured beyond Cape

Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911

After this I went to another, one Macham, a priest in high account.

A Book of Quaker Saints 1911